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Looking down Myrtle Avenue, MNNR 1983 and its crew is waiting for trailers to move out of the way to switch out a tank car at WestRock in Saint Paul. I have mostly seen this job get done at night, but here it is just before sunset in the shadows of WestRock itself. This is one of Minnesota's last active stretches of street running railroad.
A pair of Iowa Northern GP38s switch the yard in Mannly, Iowa seen here pulling through the car reader near Harris Street. It is weird to think that the Iowa Northern is now a fallen flag and gobbled up by the Canadian National.
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This is inside the new Switch House in the Tate Modern. It really is an interesting architectural building. I found these stairs leading up to a huge window and then a child and his dad went over to look out I think it makes a nice image.
Just continuing the series documenting this move which was long on my list to photograph, and that I just stumbled on here while in the area for another reason entirely was a total treat!
After switching out some storage cars in the yard Massachusetts Coastal Railroad's Taunton based local MC-3 with MC 2012 and 2014 have reached across Herman Melville Blvd. at the south end of active track to pull and respot reefers at the Maritime Terminals. This spur extends right out to the edge of the dock and if you look closely above the warehouse and the reefers you can see the masts of the trawlers and other fishing vessels moored up along this working waterfront.
MC 2012 is a rebuilt EMD GP38-3 that began life in Oct. 1966 as a GP40 for the Milwaukee Road numbered 199. It latered passed to the Soo Line and then after retirement was derated and rebuilt as a lease unit numbered GMTX 2685 and then after that spent time working for BNSF before coming here in July 2022. MC 2014 is an EMD GP59 blt. Dec. 1989 as NS 4628 and retired and sold to Progress Rail in May 2020 before being rebuilt at MEI in St. Louis and ultimately arriving here in March 2023.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Tuesday July 21, 2026
Delaware-Lackawanna Job PO-74 switches out the cars they picked up earlier from NS as DL3 to assemble the train they would be taking up the Poconos. This task ended up taking way longer than it should have because they apparently were asked by the secret service to clear out the yard of any freight cars as a "security measure" in anticipation of Sleepy Uncle Amtrak Joe's visit to Steamtown the next day.
Side note: the prominent building in the background, which now serves as a Radisson Hotel, was the passenger station for the Lackawanna Railroad in Scranton. 10-19-21
While I was waiting for the southbound Amtrak Talgo funeral train, Union Pacific sent this nice SD40N/Slug combo up the Brooklyn Yard lead. That's the Eastmoreland Golf Course across the tracks in Southeast Portland, Oregon.
While driving around the Evergreen plant before the BLU crews started working, I managed to run into the Evergreen switcher spotting boxcars to be loaded with paper products. I wonder if this thing even runs or is on site anymore now that Evergreen is shut down. I do hope if it doesn't run, someone managed to grab that Leslie RS5T that it is sporting. 1-16-23
A pair of Prairie Line's locomotives switch Archer Daniel's Midland in Clinton Iowa NBH photo 10/16/2024
On Houston's northside, UP 680 switches scrap gons out of Commercial Metals at Tower 71 on the West Belt. After wrapping up their work, they'll swing around the corner at Tower 26 nearby to head back to the bottom end of Settegast Yard.
The green signal to the left is a lineup for the Big Boy, which will be passing through in a few minutes on its way to the top end of Settegast Yard.
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UP GP38N #680
Houston, TX
October 4th, 2024
Pan Am Railways PORU switches out cars at the feed mill in N. Leeds, ME. Three blue dip Geeps were a treat on this dreary February day.
We spent a couple hours in the morning watching the Gas Local switch out the tank car facility at Pipeline. Figured it could make for a cool framing shot to show that view from the back seat.
MRL Day Gas Local
MRL SD70ACe #4408
MRL SD70ACe #4315
Thompson Falls, MT
May 5th, 2022
Those of you who follow my work know I have a thing for shooting freight under wire. Well this past Thursday I got a tip that CSXT Middleboro based daytime local B727 would be making a relatively uncommon move that was long on my wish list to shoot. B727 runs five days per week between Middleboro and Attleboro on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal maintained and dispatched Middleboro Subdivision serving customers and interchanging with the MC along the way.
On Thursdays they normally sneak out on to Amtrak's NEC main at BORO interlockong for a two and half mile shove west down Track 4 to East Junction to work a couple customers on that historic bit of trackage that I've written about in this caption: flic.kr/p/2jck93J
But there is one other customer in the area that every once in a while gets a switch. And on this day after shoving out they reversed direction and ran east a mile to a short twisting lead splitting off just short of Holden interlocking. This lead reaches down into the building of Polyfiber Inc. a subsidiary of Holland Manufacturing makers of industrial packaging, specialty coated and laminated products, water activated tapes and other products.
B726 has run the mile west with three cars trailing three GP40-2s. Just short of Holden they stopped and made two trips down and back on the lead to pull one empty and spot one load before shoving back east through Attleboro station toward East Junction. They are seen here pulling out of the building with three geeps to head back to the Amtrak mainline at MP 198.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Thursday January 14, 2021
CSXT's L13605 is at Suburban Propane in Woodensburg MD along the Hanover Sub. The local has cars for the customer and likewise, the customer has cars for the local. Once finished, the crew will continue east to Emory Grove and run around the cars, then head back west to Hanover PA. The train's power today is GP38-2 2561-a former Seaboard Coast Line unit from 1972 while the other unit is GP39-2 4302- a former Reading Lines unit conveyed to CSXT via D&H.
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Bringing train 664 into Overbrook, 642 makes another autumn appearance on the Keystone Corridor. MOW is hard at work replacing a switch as part of a weekend project.
Lighting is still not quite where I would like it but the light box works for what it is. I think I need to raise the work lights off the ground and angle them down through the box.
Freshly restored (although a little dirty) Su 214-10 does a bit of switching around Moscow's Podmoskovnaya steam roundhouse on a spring afternoon.
P36-0120 can be seen in the rear and is in the process of being dolled up for the annual Victory Day celebrations.
Where electrics once roamed. GIO's Welland job switches out cars for Ardent Milling, which will be transloaded on the westernmost track at the London Agricultural Commodities elevator (the former Robin Hood facility.)
Constructed in 1940, the Robin Hood Flour Mill received rail service from the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway via a spur from their Welland Division mainline on Elm Street. An electric locomotive was based at the foot of Elm Street in Port Colborne as an outpost assignment, servicing this facility in what was then known as the community of Humberstone, amalgamating with Port Colborne in 1952. Electric service on the NS&T ceased in 1960, with CNR diesels taking over the assignment. The yard pictured contained only the main and east siding at the time, while over on Elm Street, a short stretch of the old NS&T main was kept south of Barrick Road for switching purposes. This arrangement remained until the connection at the north end of the elevator was constructed in 1983-1984 to the Canal Sub. Per Paul Duncan, this connection appears to have been the CN Casco Lead until being handed off to the Port Colborne Harbour Railway. The connection south to the former Dunnville Sub would be built in 1997 with startup of PCHR operations.
The Robin Hood Flour Mill would be closed in 2008 by Horizon Milling, and later sold to Ceres Global Ag in 2010 to be used primarily for grain storage and export. Space in the elevator would be leased to London Agricultural Commodities effective 2019, with LAC purchasing the facility in 2023. Shortly before the end of NS&T electric operations, this unit was built. Rolling out of GMDD London in 1955 as CNR 2013, this GP9 would be renumbered in 1956 to CN 4464. In 1986, it would be rebuilt as GP9RM 7224, and sold to Lambton Diesel Services in 2021.
Looking at 1930s aerial imagery, this site can be seen prior to the elevator's construction. Steve Host's recent research pointed out the abandoned right of way from the Welland Ship Canal Construction Railway. It would appear just north of the elevator location was a dump site for earth and other construction debris, and the construction "mainline" cut across the canal near this location. Comparing 1930s and 1940s imagery, one can see this track runs along the former construction railway right of way from the point where 7224 is seen above, right to the elevator silos.
GIO Welland Job
LDSX 7224, LDSX 269
GIO Harbour Spur
Port Colborne, ON.
Storms roll in along Escambia Bay as the Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad's Pensacola Shuttle leaves town. The train is running the bayshore for the next few miles before crossing at Lora Point and switching the industrial area south of Pace.
The 8143 is leading an RJ Corman motor that is painted for future lines in Tennessee.
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On the Montana City branch just east of Helena, the 840 local drops a healthy cut of 2 bays at a sand facility. In the distance the Big Belt Mountains stand tall above the high plains east of the Montana state capital.
MRL 840 Local (Helena Local)
MRL GP9 #109
MRL SD40-2XR #252
East Helena, MT
May 4th, 2022
GP-7 4296 switches an industry track in Elburn, Illinois on a very cold February 10th, 1988. This unit was rebuilt from the 1650 in November 1980 at the C&NW's Oelwein shops.
A blue SW sits at PLS in East Chicago, IN. It looks like Cliffs colors, but as of now it's still sitting here unlettered.
The photo was taken at GEG, an industrial monument of a former mill and a factory of malted coffee substitute. It is located in Mannheim, Germany.
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CN 537 has just cleared the switch for Tri-Province Scrap, with an empty to spot and two loads to be pulled. A fresh snowfall the night before has the landscape looking quite wintry just a few short days before Christmas. The tied down cars in the background are pulls from the Humphrey Spur to go west on 305 the following morning.
HESR 8802 switches Georgia Pacific on the west side Owosso as a lite rain/mist falls on a rather nasty January night. As a kid i used to watch 8802, 8804 and the other CMGN and HESR units switch this line over the years. With the Railamerica take over by G&W and all their repainting & moving of power, it is really nice to see this engine working Owosso. 8802 and the 4 former HESR GP38's are the only ones left on the HESR that have not been renumbered or repainted. It is only a matter of time.